Wanli Xinming

Chapter 148 Xinmin Daily
"Xinmin Daily" was published less than five issues, just in time for the New Year's holiday, and stopped publishing together with "Huangming Jingshi Daily".

The Shilin collective in the north and the south could not spit out a mouthful of old phlegm, and they were all depressed to death.During the Spring Festival, every family worships their ancestors and hangs with relatives, and it is impossible to hold various literary gatherings.

Across the court, the big bosses and the middle officials all speculated about the origin of the "Xinmin Daily", and took advantage of the New Year to ask around.In the first article in Xinmin Daily, what Shilin saw was the debate of righteousness and reason, but what people in the officialdom saw was that the wind started at the end of Qingping—who is this article for?Who is standing behind?If you don't understand this, you can't stand in line.

However, "Xinmin Daily" is very mysterious. No one knows the proprietor behind it for the time being. The editor-in-chief is also Shenlong, who only uses the pseudonym "Bell".

When the Spring Festival holiday was about to end, someone finally found out that the owner of this newspaper was Suian Bo, but the editor-in-chief was Li Xianfang, a famous writer in the literary world.

Li Xianfang, styled Bocheng and nicknamed Beishan, was originally from Jianli, Hubei, and later moved to Puzhou, Shandong.In the 26th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, he was a Jinshi. He successively served as Cao Lang of the Ministry of Punishment, Shangbao Sicheng, Tongzhi of Bozhou, and Tongzhi of Ningguofu.In the first year of Wanli, seeing that he had no hope of surpassing the fifth grade, he resigned from office and returned to his hometown to compile "Puzhou Zhi".

In October of the fourth year of Wanli, after the first draft of the "Puzhou Chronicle" was completed, the famous fellows Sun Zhonghan and Su Lian came to him, saying that Suian Bo Chen Shu was going to run a newspaper in Beijing, invited Li Xianfang to be the editor-in-chief, and brought Chen Shu's personal letter.

In fact, Suian Bo first invited Sun Zhonghan, but this buddy dared not agree.Although he is also a jinshi, his literary reputation and level are comparable to that of Li Xianfang.

Therefore, he and Su Lian came together to find Li Xianfang, hoping that Li Xianfang would take them to apply for the application, and the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief would all be in the brother's pocket.

Since the birth of "Huangming Nanjing Daily", several Li Xianfang have been jealous of this newspaper for too long - there are no literati in Daming who are not jealous.However, less than a month after the daily newspaper was published in Nanjing, the imperial court promulgated the "Da Ming Newspaper Management Regulations", and at the same time the emperor issued an decree to write part of the regulations into the Daming Law.

This charter clearly stipulates that to publish newspapers in Daming, a newspaper license must be obtained.Starting from the second half of the third year of Wanli, the nobles and wealthy businessmen who wanted to run a newspaper in these two capitals submitted a total of more than 300 applications, and the imperial court issued a license, which was the "Huangming Jingshi Daily".

When everyone saw the identity of the proprietor of Huangming Jingshi Daily, they gasped. It was Zhang Yuande, the son of the Minister of the Interior, Duke of England. No one could compare to this backstage, and everyone stopped thinking.

Unexpectedly, no one could stop the luck. At the beginning of September in the fourth year of Wanli, when Suian Bo Chen Shu's wife entered the palace to ask for peace, she met the emperor who was also at the Queen Mother's place. At that time, the emperor said: "Sui'an Bo Want to apply for a newspaper? You asked him to come to see me." - just gave him a permit for nothing.

Suian Bo was cautious, fearing that the information leaked would cause the jealousy of Xungui in the capital, and he would not be able to explain it at that time, so he arranged for his family to take the letter and find Sun Zhonghan, who used to be a teacher in Suian Bo's house.

Being invited by Sui Anbo, although Sun Zhonghan turned beautiful, he didn't dare to apply.He himself knew that if he became the editor-in-chief and his good friend Li Xianfang stayed at home, the people in the literary circle of Shilin would have to laugh at him.After thinking about it, he finally made up his mind, recommended Li Xianfang to Suianbo, and tried his best to persuade him to come out.

Li Xianfang is talented and famous for his poems. He was born in Qilu and was a famous scholar in the Jiajing period. He once advocated poetry clubs with contemporary famous artists such as Li Panlong in Licheng, Xie Zhen in Linqing, Kaofeng Wu Jiyue, and Yu Yunwen and Lu Nan in Kunshan. , Xiaofeng Wu Weiyue and Shunde Ou Daren are collectively called "Guangwuzi".

He has a wide range of hobbies and has certain attainments in the study of medicine, Taoism and Buddhism.

There is no reason for Chen Shu to be dissatisfied with such a person.But the emperor asked him to run a newspaper, which was equivalent to incorporating him into the emperor's inner circle, but there was no way to talk to Sun Zhonghan and Li Xianfang first, so he had to be polite and invite Li Xianfang to Beijing for a talk.

Li Xianfang is 66 years old at this time, if he is allowed to be an official, he will definitely not do it because he has had a rough official career for half his life.But if he was asked to run a newspaper, every literati in the Ming Dynasty counted as one, and he didn't say that he was too old to do it.

After Li Xianfang received the letter, he excitedly took Sun Zhonghan and Su Lian to the capital and met with Suian Bo.

After meeting Suian Bo Chen Shu, he didn't mention the matter of running a newspaper. Instead, he held up a few people and treated them with respect as a teacher.First, I held a few literary meetings at home, and they were invited to drink and feast, enjoy singing and dancing, and sang poetry and poetry for half a month.

At the beginning, Li Xianfang didn't know why, and privately complained with Su Lian that Suianbo was unreliable.Sun Zhonghan was also at a loss, so he asked Sui'an Bo about running a newspaper.

Only then did Suian Bo summoned a few of them and said with a wry smile: "To tell the truth from the gentlemen, in these Astronomical Society, there are people from the attendant's room every day to inspect you. But what the newspapers say - listen to the emperor!"

After saying this, Li Xianfang was so frightened that his legs shook.Suian Bo's family attached great importance to education in all dynasties, and Chen Shu also had some literary talents.At this time, in a few words, Zhu Yijun's idea of ​​using newspapers to control public opinion was said.

Chen Shu and Li Xianfang said: "To tell you the truth, the emperor said that Daming has reached the point where it is impossible to change the ancestral system - you can also see the emperor's desire for reform in the past two years. The emperor said that this is a big article that has changed the world. , without the cooperation of public opinion, the results are twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, it is necessary to run a newspaper first, to change customs and habits, and to secretly change people’s hearts.”

Li Xianfang listened and looked at each other.Chen Shu said: "If several gentlemen don't want to go into this muddy water, I don't blame you. As long as I don't talk to others when I go home, I will ask Mr. Sun to bring friends to stay at my house for a few days."

Li Xianfang calmed down and asked Chen Shu, "The emperor wants to change the ancestral system, but I don't know how to change the law?"

Chen Shu listened and smiled bitterly: "I have not seen the favor for a quarter of an hour, how much can the emperor tell me? I also don't have the talent and mind to manage the country's affairs, the emperor only said a few important things, but it is 'rich country and strong country'. Soldier' ​​means."

Li Xianfang slapped his thigh and said, "It's good to be rich and strong! Daming should also reform, otherwise this prosperous world will become the place of Asura!"

"It's no wonder that the Wenhui has been circling around people like Shang Yang, Guan Zhong, Fan Zhongyan, and Wang Anshi these past few days. This old man is still strange. With the emperor's support, what are you afraid of? As long as it's not a deviant article, what does it matter?"

When Chen Shu heard it, he gave a wry smile again, took out a crumpled piece of paper and said, "This is the first article the emperor asked us to publish in the first issue, Mr. Li will read it first - I can't guess the emperor's mind anyway. ."

Li Xianfang started to read it, and it was the article about the rationality of Ding Youzhi's system. At that time, he almost took a breath.He asked Chen Shu: "This, the emperor really wants to change the ancestral system!"

Chen Shu nodded and said: "This is really not a joke. This system of civil servant Ding You was appointed by Taizu, and it has been in use for 200 years. The emperor is also true. He wants to win the favor of any minister. This system has been hacked!"

Although Li Xianfang has the highest level of rank five, his political literacy is very high.Hearing this, he shook his head and said, "Uncle's words are wrong. Your Majesty is planning ahead. Think about it, if Zhang Juzheng and Ding are worried - what about the general in the court?"

Chen Shu listened and said with a smile: "I heard a few days ago that the old man of the Zhang family is as tough as a bone hammer, but Zhang Jiangling is not healthy even after seeing the sky's tonic - it is not certain who is ahead of him or his father. ?"

Li Xianfang was speechless after hearing this, and could only shake his head and smile.

Sun Zhonghan said next to him: "Uncle's words are not right. No matter how tough a person is, the age is there. Besides, Mr. Zhang is far away in Jiangling. Looking forward to-" Having said this, seeing Chen Shu suddenly realized, he didn't say anything further.

Li Xianfang smiled and said: "Uncle, don't worry. Although this old man has a little reputation in the literary world, his career is bumpy, and his desire to serve the country has long since become cold. How about selling this old bone to the emperor? This old man will do his part!"

Chen Shu was overjoyed, and thanked Li Xianfang with a bow.Standing up, he looked at Sun Zhonghan and Su Lian again to see what they meant.

Sun Zhonghan and Su Lian were just over fifty years old, both of whom were the top three jinshi in the late Jiajing period.Hearing what Li Xianfang said at this time, they all said that it was an honor to be able to follow along and do something big.

Su Lian said with a smile: "Compared to the time when the strict party was in power, the imperial court seems like a lifetime apart. Brother Sun and I both resigned from office, and there is no chance of reinstatement - it would be great if the system of resignation and no reinstatement could be changed! "

Li Xianfang sneered when he heard the words: "This is impossible. If the court changes this, the poor Jingjing can run halfway."

Chen Shu laughed and said, "That's right, now the Metropolitan Procuratorate is very strict in fighting corruption and anti-corruption, and has removed all the shabby rules of the original ministries. I heard that a few days ago, there was a Beijing official who couldn't get out because he borrowed a usury loan. , Seeing that there is no way to celebrate the New Year, he gritted his teeth and jumped into the river - fortunately he was rescued, otherwise it would have become a big scandal!"

Li Xianfang's eyes lit up when he heard it: "Uncle, this is a good thing, we can give him a special topic!"

Chen Shu laughed when he heard it: "The old gentleman and the emperor thought about going together, and this topic really let Xinmin Daily do it. I listened to Yu Menglin from the attendant's room relaying the emperor's meaning, and I will give it to Beijing after the new year. What about the official salary.——A few years ago, I will give you a bounty first."

"Yu Menglin said that when the "Xinmin Daily" advocates, the imperial court will increase the salary, and it will be difficult for our newspaper not to sell out of stock from now on!

　Staying up all night for [-] words, I implore everyone to give the monthly pass you still have to Lao Mo - thank you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)